![]() ![]() He received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1959. īellairs received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1959 and a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Chicago in 1960. He competed in the College Bowl and wrote a regular humor column for the student magazine Scholastic. Shy, overweight, and often bullied as a child, he became a voracious reader and a self-described "bottomless pit of useless information" by the time he graduated from Marshall High School and entered the University of Notre Dame in 1955. ![]() His hometown inspired the fictional town of New Zebedee, where he set his trilogy about Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger. ![]() Front view of the Cronin House in Marshall, Michigan, which inspired The House with a Clock in Its Walls Early life and education īellairs was born in Marshall, Michigan, the son of Virginia (Monk) and Frank Edward Bellairs, a saloonkeeper. ![]()
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